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I find that this comes up fairly frequently. You find some useful library: perhaps it does logging, or enforces design-by-contract, or it provides an API for calling web services. But someone on the team suggests that instead of using the library directly, we should create a wrapper: “that way, if we ever decide to switch to a different library instead it will be easy to switch”. Is this a good idea? more…

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